How authors can have fun with Pinterest
Like most Pinterest users, I tend to poke around in there for home decor, garden ideas, and recipes, as well as art and photography. But authors can get a lot of other use out of it, too. I’m sure the...
View ArticleRecipe for becoming a writer: be an outsider
by Sandra Hutchison I know there are writers who never leave the town they were born in (think Emily Dickinson), but that’s far from my own experience. We moved often as my father’s career in...
View ArticleWhat a failed Kindle Countdown Deal looks like
What you see here is what is known in babies as failure to thrive. In a book, it’s called not having legs. Or stinking up the joint. When I ran a Kindle Countdown Deal for The Awful Mess, that spike...
View ArticleHaving trouble getting images to show in a revised Kindle book?
The only reason this is here — midweek, off the regular schedule — is so I can find it again someday. But who knows, maybe you’ll have the same problem I did. I’m quoting these instructions from...
View ArticleIs it the cover? A PickFu polling case study
by Sandra Hutchison It became clear during my recent Kindle Countdown Deal that my second novel was not catching on as well as my first. Intellectually, I had expected this. It has a literary title, it...
View ArticleTechnology, gay rights, the Confederate flag, and other cool ways to date...
It’s exhilarating to be living through so much change, especially when it seems to be going in the right direction. But what if your books become dated because of it? Earlier this month at the Glens...
View ArticleIndie author moves to Booktrope: An Interview with Massimo Marino
Update: Booktrope is no more. Sandra Hutchison interviews fellow Awesome Indies author Massimo Marino about his decision to republish his indie titles (and future titles) at Booktrope, an eBook...
View ArticleAnother year of blogging and trying to figure this stuff out
I fell off my once-a-week publication schedule after the last post, for a number of reasons: My Bluehost web site began to experience horrific downtime, which made it seem rather pointless not to...
View ArticleAfter an indie start, Nicole Blades transitions to traditional publishing
Sandra Hutchison interviews Nicole Blades, a Montreal native who moved to New York and found success writing across a variety of media, including a first novel with a small Canadian press, followed by...
View ArticleThe joy of a non-traditional Thanksgiving
My favorite Thanksgiving as a girl was spent with my family in a fishing cabin at Horseshoe Beach, Florida, with family friends, listening to the Zorba the Greek soundtrack over and over and having...
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